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Experts disagree on the prevalence of and defenses against cyber bullying.
Over the past several years, high-profile cases of cyber bullying—like those that resulted in suicides by teens Tyler Clementi and Phoebe Prince—have pushed the issue to the forefront of America's consciousness. But experts disagree on the prevalence of cyber bullying, who's responsible for preventing it, and even how to define it.
In the past, students and parents have been concerned with cyber bullies who made threats on sites like Facebook or Myspace, spread online rumors or scandalous pictures, or stole passwords to e-mail and social networking accounts, says cyberlaw expert Parry Aftab, who was honored by Congress in 2005 for her work in cyber safety. But bullies have gotten more complex and malicious as Internet access becomes more accessible with the rise of cheap, Internet-enabled mobile devices and as social networking becomes more intertwined with students' everyday lives.
Aftab says cyber bullying is a pandemic that continues to worsen. She estimates that at least 40 percent of high school students have been cyber bullied while in high school, and that the figure is nearly double among middle school students. She says any use of digital technology by a minor against another minor that is intended to hurt is cyber bullying, and it happens to almost all students.
"In high school, they don't call it cyber bullying at all," she says. "They call it digital drama, they call it life. They don't want to call it bullying because they think it makes them look weak."
A November 2010 government report, "Indicators of School Crime and Safety: 2010," estimated that 4 percent of students ages 12 to 18 were cyber bullied in 2007. In a government report released May 31, about 18 percent of high school administrators said they had to deal with cyber bullying once a week or more. Experts say it happens more frequently than is reported.
"The reality is that federal data underestimates the rates of school violence, and public perception tends to overstate it," says Kenneth Trump, a school safety expert and president of National School Safety and Security Services. "Bullying is a buzzword because of some high-profile incidents."
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Aftab worries about instances of "cyber bullying by proxy," where a student impersonates another by creating fake social networking profiles, pointing to a story in The Star-Ledger, where an online bully created a Facebook profile for Newark, N.J., teen Nafeesa Onque. The impersonator operated the page for more than three years; many of Onque's friends thought the page was run by her. The bully posted sexually explicit photos and tirades online, destroying Onque's reputation.
Then things got violent: The impersonator would challenge other students to real-life fights, and Onque was attacked one day. Stories like this are growing increasingly common, Aftab says. She worries the internet will be used to incite gang violence in inner city schools, where cyber bullying typically hasn't been as much of a problem because fewer students can afford computers and cell phones.
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Aftab says students could create a dummy profile of a student they don't like and start fights with dangerous people, hoping for retaliation. "We're going to have real gangs—the Bloods, the Crips—targeted by the 13-year-old nerds in school who want to hurt a kid they don't like," she says. "The cases I've seen like this are vendetta motivated and very dangerous. These things don't go away unless someone can resolve them."
Who should resolve these problems? Administrators are often dealing with in-school behavioral issues, and are reluctant to punish students who take part in cyber bullying, which often takes place off of school premises on personal cell phones and computers.
"Schools can work to set some policies and behavioral expectations, but it's nearly impossible for school administrators to police the internet," says Trump, the school safety expert. "Quite frankly, I think parents and the community are putting unrealistic expectations on administrators."
He says parents and teachers need to teach students to use technology appropriately, but the "enormous gap" between many students' and parents' technological literacy can leave parents helpless.
"You can still go into schools across the country and start talking about blogs and Facebook and you get the deer-in-the-headlights look from parents and educators," he says.
Aftab's web safety organization WiredSafety is going to release a toolkit for schools that will help administrators analyze their legal rights to punish students for out-of-school bullying. She recommends schools take a "restorative justice" approach with cyber bullies, where bullies write a plan to rectify the damage their actions caused, such as removing damaging pictures from the internet.
Bills have been introduced in Congress to protect victims, but lawmakers have struggled to define what constitutes bullying. In the meantime, bullying grows more prevalent and malicious, Aftab says.
"I've been doing this over the past 16 years," she says. "But I'm losing this battle."
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"Speaking the Truth in Times of Universal Deceit is a Revolutionary Act." George Orwell
After almost 10 years, do we really remember 9/11?
Oslo happened on 22/7/11 or 11/11 ........
There seems to be a concerted worldwide conspiracy by complacent governments and main stream media, to pull our attention from horrors in the face of terrorism coming from the Muslim world.
Their efforts to divert our attention and our minds from the connection between both of them, namely: Islam and the Muslim world on the one hand and the terror they produce, on the other hand.
Who will ever forget watching those television cameras, when US Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton addressed the Yemenite media speaking about terrorism and smilingly said something like... "I want to be frank about the fact that there are terrorists operating from Yemeni territory today – many of whom are not Yemeni, some of whom, I am sorry to say, are Americans," Clinton told students, lawmakers and rights activists at a town hall meeting. (5th paragraph of the article.)
You might have realized that in the last months, there has been a decrease in the frequency of Muslim terror attacks on the West. News that come from the Muslim world are mostly about their riots and rallies protesting their governments and some attacks in Afghanistan, Pakistan, India -but much less in the West.
Let's take a look at the timeline of Norway's twin attacks, prepared by Associated Press, according to police and eyewitnesses:
—3:26 p.m.: A car bomb explodes outside the prime minister's office in central Oslo.
—Around 4:50 p.m.: Vacationers at a campground begin to hear shooting across the lake on Utoya, an island where the youth wing of the Labor Party is being held.
—5:38 p.m.: SWAT team is dispatched from Oslo. It drives, deciding that starting a police helicopter would take longer.
—By 6 p.m.: The team arrives at the lake, but it struggles to find a boat to cross over.
—6:20 p.m.: The SWAT team arrives on the island.
So, basically it took 3 long hours for the Norwegian SWAT team to take control of the situation, after over 90 dead...?
Now, Norway is NOT a huge country -and besides, it is a very modern and extremely wealthy because of their booming oil industry -with all the possible latest progress available in technology and science.
After the attack, supporters of the Global Jihad terror group claimed responsibility for what they called Norway's ''occupation of Afghanistan and the abuse of our Prophet Muhammad," they said.
Later on, a man was arrested by the anti-terror police unit in Utoeya, identified as 32-year-old Norwegian national Anders Behring Breivik, also linked to the bombing in Oslo.
However, despite the fact that supporters of the "Global Jihad" terror group had claimed responsibility for the act, authorities and media seemed reluctant to accept that and have rather come with unique information about the perpetrator:
A Christian fundamentalist, we are told. A free-mason, as well.
And, it appeared that the attack had 'more [of a] Norway's Oklahoma City than Norway's World Trade Center' ... "It seems it's not Islamic-terror related," a Norwegian official said.
Until now, Norway played as middle man between the Arab world and the West, so much that Norway is considered the most anti-Semitic country in the West.
Having worked in the Muslim world, including Abu Dhabi and it's oil company, it was common knowledge for us that Norway possesses the eighth largest oil reserves in the world.
The country is also the third largest oil exporter, with approximately 2.15 billion barrels per day that secure earnings in the range of $40 billion per year.
At the same time, the North Sea, which stretches from Scandinavia through northern France, also gives Norway important gas reserves, ranking second behind Russia for the world's largest gas exporter.
Oil and gas significant revenues represent over half of the government's export revenue and, thus, its no exaggeration to say that its 4.9 million citizens enjoy very high standards of living.
At the same time, 2006 records show us that in Norway the "Liberal Party has suggested that NOK 2 million (USD 163,000) be earmarked as start funds for a cooperative program between Norway and the Muslim world. "This can help clear up prejudice, misunderstandings, or even sheer ignorance," said Liberal Party deputy leader Trine Skei Grande.
Norway with its wealth and its actions showed a keen interest in becoming one of the Muslim world's best friends in the West.
Ever since the 1970s, tiny Norway (with a population of only 4.5 million) implemented Muslim immigration-friendly policies in the hope of providing an adequate environment for their newcomers.
However, time has gone by and there are no significant signs of Muslim assimilation to their new host country, but on the contrary, their mostly Pakistani community remains non-assimilated, segregated-by-choice and discontent. In other words, it has become what experts would call a "fertile breeding ground for terrorism" in the heart of peaceful and "humanitarian" Norway's capital, Oslo.
Other important issues touching a nerve within the Muslim world are the Oslo accords between Israel and Palestinians, signed in 1993.
But Norway also has troops in Afghanistan -and because of that, Ayman al-Zawahiri made threats against Norway then.
Mullah Krekar, founder of the Al Qaeda-linked-terror-group Ansar al-Islam had issued death threats against Norwegians politicians if they chose to deport him.
To add one more ingredient to this melting pot: A Norwegian newspaper re-printed the infamous Propher Mohammad cartoons -those that were first published in Denmark.
I do not believe for a second, that Muslim extremists and Muslim terrorists who knew and planned the massacres of 9/11 in America, have stopped wanting to inflict serious damage to Western civilization.
While I have no tangible proof right now, there are symbols and signs that appear throughout the Oslo attacks, such as the use of an American "detail": the Oklahoma City bombing style -used for the first part of the attack against the government building.
The fact that the killer is, allegedly, a Christian fundamentalist and had some connection with freemasonry, which is based, partly, in Jewish principles.
In the past, in Israel, some Muslim terrorist bomb attacks have been committed on some few occasions by Muslims disguised as Israeli policemen or as Orthodox Jews.
So, I am wondering what would stop the school of evil 9/11 planners to engineer an attack by a local man from Norway, to perform this massacre and give it enough appearance that it's a Christian fundamentalist -when in reality it may all well have been as perfectly planned as those airplanes that hit the Twin Towers, the World Trade Center, 10 years ago.
After all, this time the venue and the victims were chosen among the least guarded places and on friendly ground, where the majority, including government authorities and police, are ready to cover the traces of their proteges.
Main stream media, as if they had received instructions, is adamantly defending Muslims as if their terrorism would be owned also by all other religions in the world: For instance, Al Jazeera's "Norway, Islam and the threat of the West," or "Norway's mass killer pursuing anti-Islam crusade" and "Arab world outraged by Norway attack allegations." Where "Muslim web surfers are reported to accuse the 'terrorist Zionist state' for attack. Tough luck though because terrorism for decades has had the incomparable Muslim signature.
And, just 'why' would anyone who is anti-Islam rather go and kill innocent Norwegian youth...? So, he says one thing but the acts are actually what could result from Muslim terror attacks.
And, here, some more telling details: The killer is said to have been planning the attack since 2009... Sure, there were loads of details to think about, to plan, to foresee, to learn and to practice... Just as I said above, like in 9/11 -less the planes...
And, lastly, the one detail that although I am no ballistic expert, reminds me of other similar scenario where Muslim terrorists are the culprits:
He used "Special bullets for maximum internal drainage..." "These bullets more or less exploded inside the body. All the energy of the bullets was deposited inside the tissue," Dr Colin Poole, head of surgery at Ringriket Hospital in Honefoss northwest of Oslo, said. "They inflicted internal damage that's absolutely horrible."
Sadly, it sounds similar to the shrapnels Muslim terrorists use when they attack as well innocent civilians in Israel, on any regular sunny day.
Muslims went wild because we thought immediately it was their terrorists who perpetrated, once more, this massacre.
I believe it's just one of their greatest master plans.
After all, the victims were not Muslims.
And what a better way to convince the world they are innocent if they play the role of the victim rather than the one of the attacker, for those who want to believe them.
But one thing is sure. It's time that Norway, Europe, the US and the West at large stop babysitting the Muslim world and let them be accountable for their bestial actions or they will never enter civilization.
And I may be wrong.
But, what if I am not?
Goodwill Ambassador Eliana Benador is former President of Benador Associates, and a national and international political analyst and global strategist. You can follow her at the Goodwill Amabassador , or her website The World As I See It. Follow her on Twitter @ElianaBenador and her political page on Facebook

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A class size averaging 14 students, 90 percent of the children go on to college — and most of those graduates are awarded academic scholarships — and they're reading Thomas Aquinas.
That's Woodstream Christian Academy — and perhaps the most unusual part is that the academy's upper classmen are getting their lessons at the Prince George's Sports and Learning Complex in Landover.
"We're small in number, and we're mighty in spirit," said Alicia Brown, who has been a tutor (teacher) at Woodstream for nine years.
"I have five kids, and we've experienced every setting. What I like (about) the small class settings (is) the students are more than just a number. We can infuse a biblical worldview in our curriculum unapologetically," she said. "Our first graduating class finished this spring. We're very pleased about what they're doing. Some are going to grad school and some are working and many have shared with us."
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"We interview the families, and we want to make sure it's a good fit and all line up with the philosophy, the statement of faith, which is distinctively Christian. We want to develop young men and women of integrity, and we want to see the students make a difference," Brown said.
The curriculum is rigorous. Students study classical literature and theology and are expected to deliver an oral thesis on a subject in front of an adjudicating panel each year.
"We do logic. We teach rhetoric, and we have a great curriculum featuring Plato and Aristotle. Students also take debate courses.We teach our students not just what to think but how to think," said Douglas Kump, debate director and tutor at Woodstream, who recently returned to the school after leaving to teach at a private school in Rockville.
Last year the Woodstream debate team won third place in the local debate championship, third place in the National High School Ethics Bowl at American University and second place at a debate competition hosted by fraternity Omega Psi Phi at George Washington University. All of the winners were first year debaters.
"I missed Woodstream ... the classical curriculum — great books courses here are called omnibus, or all encompassing including Shakespeare and Aquinas. Students here also read college level texts in our program," Kump said.
"The Communist Manifesto" and George Orwell's "Animal Farm" are among the kinds of reading materials to which Woodstream students are exposed. Kump, a doctoral candidate, teaches an award-winning cadre of orators who can argue the pros and cons of very sophisticated subjects.
"A lot of our parents are informed about the issues now that students are studying (such as) whether Washington, D.C., should become a state, year-round schooling, gender-segregated education and whether the embargo on Cuba should be lifted," Kump said.
But how did this school with a main campus at 9800 Lottsford Road in Mitchellville end up with a campus at the Sports and Learning Complex in Landover?
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people! do you know dinara safina? what do you think about her? do you think she'll get the no.1 spot sooner and win her first grandslam this year? thanks for those who will answer.
Welcome to the forum, dinara :D. [H] I believe Safina will be number one at some point over the next year or two. She seems to be having a slight rough patch right now, but that will pass. Three more Slams this year--best chance would be Roland Garros, I would think.
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to fking_crazy:no she's not good-looking. you are obsessed with maria sharapova that's why you are saying that. but i respect if that's your opinion.
to paul_pipkin:ah okay. thanks for your opinion. i appreciate it. uhm. what do you think is her best surface? who are your top five favorite women tennis players? describe safina on and off court. THANKS!
Hey, thanks for making this "Dinara thread"!!! I was thinking to make one early on this Forum, but than I realize that no one excapt me will visit it, because I think that I'm the onlyone, who loves Dinara!!! :))))
As I said, I love Dinara, but to be honest, I think that I started to love her, because of her older brother- MARAT- I'm totally crazy for him!!!! :))) But that, watching her matches, interviews I started love her, not only because of Marat!! I think that she's very sweet and kind person with big heart!! She is not very good- looking, but she IS NOT ugly as many are saying!!!! She is playing quite well, specially last year, which I think was her year!! :))) I like her ofansive game and her behaving off the court!!! I LOVE DINARA!!!! :)))
And, by the way, welcome to this Forum!! I'm SONJA from Belgrade, Serbia!!! You will have here a lot of fun and what is more important, you will meet many good persond here!!! ENJOY!!!! :)))))
^hey, Sonja!!you r wrong!!! you r not the only one!! I like Dinara too!!!!I don`t love her sooooo much but I like her!! She is a good player and she is very nice!!!! And yeah hope she`ll do very good this year!!! I would like seeing Jelena and Dinara wining some GS this year!!!!!And yeah, I think she`ll reach no1 spot!!!This year for sure, not for such long time but she`ll be the no1!!!Good luck for her this year!!!
I wanna welcome too the new members!!!!WELCOME, GUYS!!!!Have a great time here!!!!!Have fun and enjoy all our threads!!!!
I like & respect most all the Russian girls. My favorite alongside of Masha is Elena Dementieva. In the beginning, Lenochka was coached by Marat & Dinara's mum, Rauza Islanova. The families are close--often seen dining together at the tournaments. (Azarenka, the Belarusian star, is a friend of Elena & Dinara as well as Vera Zvonareva--which tells me Victoria is all right too. [:)])
I'm not expert on Dinara's game. But I suspect her training in Spain made her most proficient on clay and various types of indoor carpet--maybe a little more than hardcourt but she's good there as well. Her coach Željko Krajan has done great work with her but also fitness trainer Dejan Vojnović. (These Croats are good at what they do.) To my eye, Dinara's body is just fine. [8-|]
hahaha. :) thanks for your opinions people. yeah. i truly hope so that she'll win her first grandslam this year and be no.1
she is really great. she is a true person. she has a good personality.
YEAHHHHHHHHH!! and elso we have the best surname in whole russian language heheh[:P]
and i agree that in last year she show very nice tennis and who know, maybe this is it, time, when she already grow up for grand slams[:)][:)]
^ Привет подруга, а ты из России что ли?
I loike Dinara so much!!!! She's my 3rd favourite player after Masha and JJ. And maybe I'll come to watch her practising in Croatia this year. Her coach is from Croatia so she often trains in Varaždin, Croatia and she's sometimes on our coast as well. Goooo Dinara!!!
[quote user="dinara :D"]people. kindly describe dinara safina on and off court. thanks![/quote]
ok!!! what can I say?? Her game really improved in the last part of year when she changed coach. She plays very good tennis and I think that she must improve her serve. She has powerful, good shots and is very good on the baseline. Her coach helped her to heed the emotional problems somehow but maybe she still has to work a little bit. She made the GS final so she showed that she could win one in the future. I think she`ll win some tournaments this year and maybe her first GS too :)))). Also she`ll probably reach the no1 spot !!!! But the certain thing is that she changed and she changed in good :)))))) !!!! I wanna congratulate her and her coach for this and wish her good luck this year!!!
off the court...hmmm....I don`t know so much...I think she is nice and smart person and for sure she has a great brother :))) !!! She knows speaking Spanish and English very good. And this is all I could say I think...
by the way. Dinara Safina is awarded as the Most Improved Player.
Congratulations to her!
She certainly is the most improved player of 2008. [H] There's an awards ceremony video clip on the S-E WTA site:
yeah. you right. she started the year (2008) no. 15 i think and finished it no. 3!
she is really amazing! by the way, i already watch the video clip.
she is so tall! I hope Dinara Safina will continue to improve and continue
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Wow...my boyfriend has renamed this dish "Chicken Disaster-ole." We made this according to the directions, without adding broccoli or other veggies. The chicken was completely flavorless even though I tried to avoid this by simmering with vegetable broth and seasonings before shredding. This makes more than 4 servings, holy cow who needs 1/2 can of crescent rolls per person! Also I didn't feel there was enough sauce, maybe add more milk? I love quick easy casseroles, but this is not one I will ever waste the ingredients to make again.
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This was good, but it came out kind of doughy. I took it out at 40 minutes because the top was golden and bubbling. Next time I make this, I'm leaving it in longer.
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Deirdre Smith, Syngenta Packaging Buyer/Seeds Business Partner complimented the company on attaining a 100 percent quality rating for 2011. She went on to say that this award is not "won, it's earned. This level of quality does not go un-noticed by Syngenta Corporation."
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Syngenta officials presented Tasler Inc., of Webster City, with a "Partners in Quality Award."?Pictured are David Andresen, Kristy Walters, Deirdre Smith, Greg Tasler, Doug Jacobson, John Shumate, Andrew Johnson and David Steinert.
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Syngenta officials who participated in the plant tour and awards ceremony included; John Shumate - North American quality manager; Andrew Johnson - quality specialist; Kristy Walters Omaha vendor scheduler; David Andresen seeds vendor scheduler; Deirdre Smith packaging buyer/seeds business partner, and David Steinert packaging buyer.


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- Ribbon
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Do not use unbaked clay on unprotected furniture or finished surfaces. Start with clean hands and work surface area. Good work surfaces include wax paper, metal baking sheet, or disposable foil. Knead clay until soft and smooth. For best results, clean your hands in between colors. Shape clay, pressing pieces together firmly. Bake on ovenproof glass or metal surface at 275 °F (130 °C) for 15 minutes per ¼" (6 mm) thickness. For best baking results, use an oven thermometer. DO NOT USE MICROWAVE OVEN. DO NOT EXCEED THE ABOVE TEMPERATURE OR RECOMMENDED BAKING TIME. Wash hands after use. Baking should be completed by an adult.
Begin by preheating oven to 275 °F (130 °C). Test temperature with oven thermometer for perfectly cured clay. For best results, condition all clay by running it through the clay dedicated pasta machine for several passes on the widest setting. Fold the clay in half after each pass and insert the fold side into the rollers first.
Using ¼ bar of Bright Green clay, make a ball and flatten into a circle for the ornament base (approximately 1-7/8").
To make the bird's body, make a Pink ball into a flat curved teardrop (approximately 1¼"W). Attach to Bright Green base.
To make the wing, make a Yellow ball into a curved teardrop (approximately ½"W) and press flat. Using Purple clay, make a ball into curved teardrop (approximately 3/8" W), flatten and layer on top of the Yellow wing and attach to bird's body. Make small Purple teardrops (approximately 3/16" H) and press on for the wing tip.
Create tail feathers by making three small flat Yellow teardrops (approximately 5/16" H) and three smaller Purple flat (approximately 3/16" H) teardrops. Layer the Purple feathers onto the Yellow feathers for tail.
Make small Pink teardrops (approx 1/4" H) and press on for head feathers.
Make small Orange triangle (approx. 1/8") and press on for beak. Make small Brown ball (approximately 1/16") and press on for eye. Make two small Brown snakes (approximately 5/16") and press on for legs. Press Straight end of eye pin into ornament top.
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Saints sweep PBC Tourney, advance to NCAA Regional
North Georgia records schools first tournament championship
AIKEN, SC - The North Georgia College & State University Saints, making their first-ever PBC Tournament appearance, won the championship by beating Francis Marion 10-8 on Sunday at Roberto Hernandez Stadium.
The Saints put up six runs in the bottom of the second inning and held off a furious Patriot rally in the sixth to claim the tournament title and earn the league's automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament.
After the conclusion of the tournament, Chris
Curtis and Chad Sage were named to the 2008 PBC All-tournament
Team, while Logan Sharrett was named tournament MVP.
Francis Marion began the game in championship form, scoring twice in the top of the first inning. After Justin Greene was hit by a pitch and stood on first, Jared Barkdoll laced a single out to center field. NGCSU's Josh Tate fielded the ball and attempted to throw Greene out at third, but instead threw it high and into the North Georgia dugout, allowing Greene to score and Barkdoll to reach third. Barkdoll later scored on a groundout by Preston Shuey.
NGCSU answered in the bottom of the first with three runs. FMU starter David Walters issued back-to-back walks and then an RBI single to Tate that scored Rob Flanigan. Chad Sagen then doubled to right center to score two more runs and give the Saints their first lead. That was the end of the day for Walters, who was replaced by Cory Deering (L, 3-5) after 2/3 of an inning.
Francis Marion added another run in the second on a Greg Phelps double that scored Ryan Hypke, after Hypke reached on a two-out single.
Tied at three, the Saints appeared to put the game away in the second with a six-run outburst. Tournament MVP Logan Sharrett began the rally with an RBI single to center, followed by a similar hit from Andre Airich. After Sharrett scored on a groundout, Chad Sage came to the plate with two on and launched a three-run home run to right field.
FMU added another run in the third as Keon Graves singled through the right side of the infield to score Shuey. That run was the last for North Georgia starter Jesse Coxwell, who lasted only two innings before being lifted for Alex Simmons (W, 4-0). Simmons pitched the next three innings to get the win, allowing two earned runs on two hits while striking out two.
Ed Paul came in for FMU to relieve Deering in the third and cruised through the next four innings, holding the Saints in check with five strikouts. Francis Marion made the most of that in the sixth as they came back with four runs to make it a one-run game.
The FMU rally started with a single by Chris Honeycutt and a walk to Graves. Simmons was then lifted for pitcher Zack Black (S, 3) who induced a pop-up before Hypke singled to load the bases. Greg Phelps then brought home three runs with his second double of the day, then later scored himself on an RBI single from Justin Greene.
After getting roughed up in the sixth, Black rebounded to set down the Patriots in order in the seventh. Black went four innings to get the save, allowing four hits and striking out three.
NGCSU added an insurance run in the bottom of the sixth on a Tate sacrifice fly, but they would not need to cash it in as Black cruised through the eighth and the ninth, setting the Patriots down in order in the top of the ninth, including a pop-up to short to end the game and send the Saints into a celebratory mob on the pitchers mound.
Sage finished the game 2-for-5 with the two doubles and five RBIs to be named to the All-Tournament team. Tate had three RBIs and two runs scored for the Saints while Craig Brisson was 3-for-5 with two runs scored.
North Georgia Post Game Quotes
Head Coach Tom Cantrell
Opening Statement: "Just another great day in Aiken, South Carolina. I can't say enough about what my players did, we had the conversation about the weather and all those factors that were in play. I met with (the players) about midnight last night and I told them not to worry about the weather, that we were going to get a chance to settle it on the field. These guys have been on a mission since April started, winning 23 out of 26 games against good competition. Give Francis Marion credit, they hung in there after it would have been easy for them to quit when it was 9-3."
After winning 23 of 26 and now headed to the regional, what are your expectations: "Our expectations are to keep this thing rolling. We are like most schools that when the season starts out we have a plan. Whether it is a dream or not, it should be everybody's goal to win the national championship. The realization is that we want to do next week what we did this week. A lot of people in the coaching profession say it is impossible to win two tournaments. I have heard it several times that if you win the conference tournament you usually do not do well in the regional. I just think that is a myth. Everybody is going to tee it up again. There are going to be some good teams there, there are good teams here. We think we are one of the good teams, we have played like it over the last month, and we hope we can continue to do it. We will see what happens, that is all we can do."
Chad Sage
On coming up big after being hitless in the first two games, including a three-run home run: "I didn't get a hit the first two games. I was pressing too much, trying to do too much with the ball. These last two games I have tried to get my foot down, choke up on the bat, and put the ball in play somewhere and let it happen."
How much of a relief was it to come up big and hit a three-run home run: "It was a big relief, I just wanted to drive it and make sure we could get a run out of it. The ball kept going and went over the fence. It felt good to get a lot of momentum going and I think that carried us a long way."
Zack Black
On calming down and pitching well after giving up a big hit to cut the lead to one: "We still had the lead after that hit and our hitters have been hitting the whole tournament. So I knew if I could keep us the lead and control the damage our offense would get some more runs for us."
North Georgia now awaits their assignment in the NCAA Tournament, which should be released later on Sunday.
2008 PBC Tournament
All-Tournament Team
Jonnie Geiger, Columbus State
Brandon Masters, Columbus State
Peden Rucker, USC Aiken
Justin Greene, Francis Marion
Greg Phelps, Francis Marion
Ed Paul, Francis Marion
Chris Curtis, North Georgia
Chad Sage, North Georgia
Tournament MVP - Logan Sharrett, North Georgia


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by Chris Hardwick on September 14, 2010
Via LikeCool but originally found in a post about public restrooms at Cracked.com.
I had my appendix taken out a few days ago, I ended up having to go back so that redo the few stitches I broke laughing!
1) I'm sorry you died
2) WHATCHOOTALKINBOUT??? It must be hard to read from beyond the grave. Underneath the image are two sources. The first is LikeCool, where I found the image and the second is cracked.com, when I later found out that was its origin. I never saw it on Cracked. I re-blogged it from a site that re-blogged it, but I absolutely credited both of them.
Please read more thoroughly before you use a strong word like "plagiarise" (I do prefer the British spelling). That word means that I claimed ownership over its creation, which I NEVER did. EVER. If you want to be one of those folks who polices the Internet and enjoys telling people how they're wrong, at the very least do your due diligence and make sure that your point is valid.
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I always see someone doing the 4th pic! I HATE that! Cant stand near them without getting kicked in the head and shat on.
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Why is the guy in the sixth pic peeing WHITE dotted-lines….?
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While eating shit…
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Last one = "The Aristocrats!" ]
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